But as we can see in the Gearbox Knowledge Base, even the PC had a number of flaws.
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Communication has moved from the telephone landline to the mobile phone to Internet telephony with Skype to now apps like GroupMe with mobile communications services which do not rely on a PC or telephone number.
So will the world's number two PC manufacturer holding an axe over Sony's neck head tip the scales?
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This joint venture makes Lenovo the number one PC vendor in two out-of-the three largest PC markets in the world.
The back story is that Lenovo is posed to become the number 1 PC manufacturer globally by volume, overtaking HP.
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Michael Dell has said he will buy back the world's number three PC-maker that he founded and that carries his name.
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As the number one PC vendor in China, Lenovo's PC shipments are greater than that of the next top four vendors combined.
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Lenovo was the leading PC vendor in Japan, the world's fifth largest PC market, and number one in India as well, where the Company grew 31.8 percent and gained 4.8 share points year-over-year.
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He also notes that the company is now in qualification with a number of PC makers on hybrid drives, which includes both the quick booting characteristics of solid-state drives, and the capacity advantages of hard drives.
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Cubby is the first service built on LogMeIn's very own cloud data sync and storage platform letting people turn any number of PC or Mac folders into 'cubbies' that can be accessed from other devices, stored in the cloud, and shared with colleagues and friends.
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Perhaps the most exciting feature, according to AAS, is the inclusion of UPnP, which allows content to be streamed to and from the phone from any number of compatible PC and home theater devices.
Hyman Lippitt PC et al., case number 09-cv-14077, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
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Lenovo has recently taken the number two slot in PC market share from Dell and seems poised for further growth.
Many Web sites are set up to create a cookie, or unique serial number, on the PC of the person browsing.
"We wanted a unique architecture we could sell into the console, arcade and PC markets and accumulate a huge number of software titles, " says Hirokazu Hashimoto, president of NEC Electronics in Santa Clara, California, who's in charge of the PowerVR.
Going forward, we expect to see an increase in the proportion of the number of mobile to PC web page views (which in Asia grew to 20% in 2011 from 8% in 2010) and an increase in 3G and mobile web penetration.
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The built-in mini-USB On The Go (OTG) port provides a way to connect directly to a computer for easy file transfers (Mac and PC compatible), supports a number of peripherals, such as both wired and wireless-via-dongle mice and keyboards, hubs, and thumb drives, and can also be used to re-charge the internal battery.
While a landline can call a Google Voice number and ring on your PC, the tablet cannot be called in like manner.
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The number of searches conducted on PC-alternatives like mobile phones and smartphones can lead to higher click-through rates, thereby driving revenue per search.
Notebook sales now comprise 55.2% of all PC sales, thanks to a record number of notebooks shipped in the third quarter--more than 9.5 million units, according to IDC.
It said that it was concerned that the regulator had calculated the fine based of the number of TV sets and PC monitors sold by LG Electronics in Europe rather than the sales of just cathode ray tubes.
With four years' effort, our Consumer PC business has become the world's number one in this segment for the first time.
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"This property has been right at the heart of drug abuse in Runnymede for a number of years, " said PC Duncan Saunders.
Chipsets are collections of chips that surround the main processor in a PC, and a shortage would limit the number of Duron PCs that can be sold.
Now the number crunching can be done with a single PC, says Toshio Honda, a professor of engineering at Japan's Chiba University and a former Benton student.
While this could be detrimental to the projected global PC growth this year, we feel there are a number of other factors that could fuel demand for Intel-inspired PCs in the future.
Someone can call your USA number and it will ring right there on your Pocket PC.
Comdex wouldn't be complete without the wacky element, so the USB Implementers Forum is stepping up to the port (again and again) in an attempt to set the world's record for the number of peripherals that can be hooked to a single PC.
While we told you earlier this week that the Ion 2-powered ASUS Eee PC 1201PN wouldn't be arriving until late May, a number of European sites have gotten early review samples of the 12-inch "netbook" -- if you choose to call it that -- and have discovered that it doesn't use NVIDIA's Optimus automatic graphics switching technology.
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The only way Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) could ever top that number is if it licensed Mac OS to third-party PC manufacturers.
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